All About Steve
Review
by Anthony Morris
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All About Steve
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When we are introduced to Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) at the beginning of All About Steve, it would be handy to know whether she is a hero we should cheer for or a total fruitloop we should laugh at.
But
instead of laying down those basic rules, we see her acting "quirky" -
which basically means she wears red boots, talks all the time, lives
with her parents (temporarily) and puts together crossword puzzles for
a living.
Annoying? Yes. A complete freak? Hardly.
Yet
no sooner has the film begun than every single person she meets –
including her boss and a bunch of kids at a careers day is telling her
she is a loser because she doesn't have a man.
And why the hell is a woman with no kids, no siblings and no friends at a school careers day?
So
when Mary goes on a blind date that very night and the guy turns out to
be the hunky Steve (Brad Cooper), she tries to have sex with him in his
car parked outside her parents house - before they go on the date.
Steve isn't supposed to be gay, but still knocks back a sexually willing woman who looks like Sandra Bullock.
So
she decides to follow Steve across country as he works as the cameraman
for roving news jerk Hughes (Thomas Haden Church), and suddenly it
feels like we should be siding with Steve as the crazy stalker lady
keeps turning up in his life.
Maybe if All About Steve
was funny this wouldn't matter. However, this is a romantic comedy
without either romance or comedy, and so scene after scene clunks along
painfully until the whole story grinds to a halt with Mary at pretty
much the exact same spot in her life she started at.
Even Thomas Haden Church - always funny playing a self obsessed jerk - can't make the dull dialogue work.
Why would you go see this? Unless you hate yourself, you wouldn’t.
And no-one hates themselves this much.
0 out
of 5
All About Steve
Australian release: 22nd October,
2009
Official
Site: All About Steve
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong
Director: Phil Traill
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